Yoga Includes Me with Sarah Henderson
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, I speak to Sarah Henderson, a yoga teacher who specializes in teaching adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Sarah's parents were role models of advocacy after her younger sister, Hannah, was born with Down Syndrome. And Sarah has followed in their footsteps -- before she became a yoga teacher, she worked at an inclusive preschool, in respite care, and as a developmental evaluator. Add to that the many different types of yoga training Sarah has under her belt -- including training with Jivana Heyman of Accessible Yoga, with Matthew Sanford, and with Jason -- and Sarah has a an incredible toolkit to draw from as she works with her students.
On this episode, Sarah shares many useful insights such as:
- How one of her teachers encouraged her forge her own path and teach this population of adults
- How she sequences her classes based on the training she's done with Jason
- The tools she uses to people who learn and process things differently
- Why she believes “presence is participation”
- How teaching this community is different—and, perhaps more importantly, how it’s the same as teaching anyone else
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 260 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:09.3 | Today my guest is Sarah Henderson. Sarah is a yoga teacher based in Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 0:15.7 | and in recent years the bulk of Sarah's teaching has focused on adults with cognitive and |
| 0:20.8 | intellectual disabilities and she will explain at the top of the episode how she got into this work |
| 0:26.8 | and her extensive background in working with folks with developmental disabilities. She really I |
| 0:34.0 | think is just was so perfectly positioned to do this work but one of the things that she |
| 0:40.5 | demonstrates so clearly in the episode and the way that she shares with us is that really all |
| 0:47.3 | of us are poised to do work with all different kinds of people and that was really the main reason |
| 0:54.3 | I wanted to talk to her today. I like to always highlight the idea that teaching yoga doesn't |
| 1:02.1 | solely happen in you know mainstream studios where the bulk of the population is very young and very |
| 1:11.5 | able bodied that yoga can happen in all different kinds of places and in all different kinds of |
| 1:17.9 | ways. I initially got to know Sarah because she reached out to Jason and I because she'd taken |
| 1:23.9 | both of our online courses and she shared that she was able to take a lot of what she learned in |
| 1:30.4 | Jason's sequencing course and take the foundational concepts and really apply them specifically to |
| 1:36.5 | the way that she teaches and to the people that she teaches and so I I wanted to hear more about |
| 1:41.4 | that and she explains that really well. One other thought I have before we start the interview is |
| 1:48.1 | I love how Sarah talks about how sometimes her folks who come to her class they might not actually |
| 1:57.9 | feel like participating in the way that we see as traditional participation for that particular |
| 2:03.8 | day. They might not want to do the osna practice or maybe they don't want to do the chanting part |
| 2:08.5 | or whatever and Sarah really allows them to make that choice for themselves and to participate |
| 2:17.1 | in whatever way feels appropriate for them on that particular day and often the people will stay |
| 2:22.8 | in the room they might do yoga with some of her bendable dolls that she has or they might |
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